"Speaker-Women's Ordination -Matter of Justice for Catholics"- Dr. Patricia Fresen, RCWP - Article in Courier-Journal on her Address to CTA

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121111/NEWS01/311110068/Speaker-Women-s-ordination-matter-justice-Catholics?nclick_check=1

"Unbowed, the South African native told a gathering of more than 1,500 at a liberal Catholic conference in Louisville that the hierarchy has it backwards.
“The present pope and the previous one are in schism,” said Fresen, a former Dominican nun and a keynote speaker at the national conference of the group Call to Action, which wrapped up a three-day gathering at the Galt House on Sunday.
She contended that Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor, John Paul II, are rolling back the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which began 50 years ago this fall.
“After all, a general council is the highest authority in the church, higher than the pope,” Fresen maintained.
Fresen — a bishop in the Roman Catholic Women Priests movement — titled her talk, “Less Pope, More Jesus.” She called for an end to the hiearchical governing of the church and instead a “much broader understanding of the church as the people of God.”
Fresen cited inspiration from the overthrow of apartheid, or legalized discrimination, in her native country.
“The only way as I discovered in South Africa to bring about real systemic change is to do something against the system, and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.
“We claim equality and justice for women,” she added..."